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Saturday, August 8, 2009

William Penn and his Pigeons

Friday I spent the day in Philadelphia and Saturday I spent the day in Manhattan mostly in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This picture was taken Friday in Philadelphia's Penn Treaty park. This is the top part of a statue of William Penn the founder of Pennsylvania.

I'm still going through a black & white phase so Voila.

Now I would like to give some information about the sculpture in the middle picture of my previous post.

It's called "Social Consciousness" and it was created in 1954 by Jacob Epstein . It's located near the back door of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

37 comments:

This is very good, but I selfishly hope you revert soon to your beautiful color images.I have seen some works of Epstein in London and mostly liked them, his tomb of Oscar Wilde in Paris is really ugly.

Thanks for the explanation. "Social consciousness" is disturbing but real.This b&w shot of Monsieur Penn is wonderful! I love the pilgrim style hair and hat. I'm not too sure about the pigeons and their damage though! Oh, and I'm jealous of you for having been to the Met. ;-) It's been too long since my last visit.

Thank you for all the informations, about this one and the last picture;Pigeons( and other birds..) don't respect anything,even great men, but they often allow photographers to do funny or impressive shots!

Great vision on so many levels - your sky is gorgeous - the monument / it would have never occurred to me it is Penn's head/ - like a rock - the birds in flight - fantastic!About the "social consciousness" - it is so scary - I am afraid the artist has his own consciousness problems :)